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Objectifs
- Contribute to state goals to achieve a national aquaculture production of 30,000 tons.
- Continue supervising marine aquaculture projects to enhance their economic profitability.
- Establish a quality label for certain aquaculture products.
- Introduce new fish species such as Meagre (Argyrosomus regius) and Seriola (Seriola dumerili).
- Produce 10 million PL20 larvae and 50 tons of white shrimp (Penaeus Vannamei) in the Melloulech shrimp farming pilot project.
- Support and assist in establishing shrimp farming projects.
- Produce 100 million seedlings of oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and clams (Ruditapes decussatus) in the Bizerte bivalve hatchery.
- Produce 10 million Chinese carp in the Boumhel freshwater aquaculture pilot station.
- Produce 500 thousand mono-sex Tilapia fingerlings in the Bechima pilot station.
- Ensure the continuation of freshwater fish stocking in certain Tunisian dams.
- Optimize the marketing and consumption of freshwater fish species.
Sector figures:
- 26 Marine fish farms
- 16 Shellfish farms
- 7 Freshwater fish farms
- 1 Shrimp farm
- 10 Algae farms
- 3 Marine fish hatcheries
- 3 Freshwater fish hatcheries
- 1 Shrimp hatchery
- 3 Fish feed manufacturing plants
- 6 Bluefin tuna fattening farms